Pathways Faith Community Monthly Gathering

Pathways program this month:

"Winners & Losers"

“I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  II Tim4:7

First, about Pathways: Pathways is a Bay Area gathering place for progressive thinkers in the Christian faith tradition, located right here in Walnut Creek. As a religious non-profit organization, we welcome doubters and seekers, skeptics and agnostics to our informal monthly gathering.  To learn more about Pathways, its principles and programs visit our website: http://pathwaysfaithcommunity.org

Now, about this month's program: At the Olympic trials recently held in Eugene, Oregon, sprinters Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh tied for third place in the women’s 100-meter race.  Even a high-speed camera that captures 3,000 frames per second was unable to determine a conclusive winner.  They were both winners and losers.  The racing world was totally flummoxed and had no provision amidst all their rules how to handle such a situation. Never before had they been unable to determine the difference between a winner and loser.  A draw wasn’t acceptable, since only one of them could go on to further compete with the American team. A tiebreaker would be required either by a run-off, or a capricious coin toss.  In the trophy-centric world in which we live there’s little alternative to yet another race, or pure chance, unless ...
 
Last month’s Pathways gathering explored the foolish kind of wisdom espoused by the same Galilean sage who also proposed we win by losing. This is what we’ll explore THIS SUNDAY, July 22nd, 5 PM. Both winners and losers welcome!

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